From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bitkeeper
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:06:41 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307181603340.21716-100000@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E19dbGS-00026T-9R@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I think it would be appropriate at this point to write a free client
> that talks with Bitkeeper,
Maybe. I'll leave that decision to whomever decides to
invest his time and/or money in implementing such software.
> and for Linux developers to start switching to that from Bitkeeper.
That would be a bit premature. I certainly wouldn't switch
to a piece of software that doesn't exist yet. ;)
To put it more bluntly: free software would have to implement
a very significant amount of Bitkeeper's functionality before
I would ever consider switching to it.
At the moment there simply is no equivalent free alternative
to Bitkeeper, so there's nothing to switch to. Once such an
alternative exists we could continue this debate.
kind regards,
Rik
--
Great minds drink alike.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-18 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-18 19:51 Bitkeeper Richard Stallman
2003-07-18 20:06 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2003-07-18 20:22 ` Bitkeeper nick
2003-07-18 20:40 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 21:28 ` Bitkeeper Alan Cox
2003-07-19 23:45 ` Bitkeeper Pavel Machek
2003-07-20 0:23 ` Bitkeeper Jeff Garzik
2003-07-18 20:32 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 20:44 ` Bitkeeper Rik van Riel
2003-07-19 18:42 ` Bitkeeper Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-19 18:49 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 18:57 ` Bitkeeper Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-19 19:05 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 20:02 ` Bitkeeper Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-18 20:09 ` Bitkeeper Trever L. Adams
2003-07-18 20:44 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 21:03 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-18 21:58 ` Bitkeeper Trever L. Adams
2003-07-18 22:17 ` Bitkeeper Mike Fedyk
2003-07-18 22:39 ` Bitkeeper Alan Cox
2003-07-19 8:20 ` Bitkeeper Eric W. Biederman
2003-07-19 15:34 ` Bitkeeper Mark Mielke
2003-07-18 22:29 ` Bitkeeper Scott Robert Ladd
2003-07-18 20:30 ` Bitkeeper Michael Buesch
2003-07-18 20:36 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 20:44 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-18 21:03 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 21:08 ` Bitkeeper David Schwartz
2003-07-18 21:28 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 21:23 ` Bitkeeper Alan Cox
2003-07-18 21:50 ` Bitkeeper David Lang
2003-07-18 21:54 ` Bitkeeper Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-18 22:16 ` Bitkeeper Alan Cox
2003-07-18 22:01 ` Bitkeeper Trever L. Adams
2003-07-18 22:27 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 9:45 ` Bitkeeper Marcus Metzler
2003-07-19 20:42 ` Bitkeeper Adrian Bunk
2003-07-19 21:57 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 22:28 ` Bitkeeper Adrian Bunk
2003-07-19 22:39 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 23:45 ` Bitkeeper Adrian Bunk
2003-07-20 0:02 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-20 0:10 ` Bitkeeper Tupshin Harper
2003-07-20 0:26 ` Bitkeeper Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-20 1:11 ` Bitkeeper Jeff Garzik
2003-07-20 0:23 ` Bitkeeper Jeff Garzik
2003-07-20 0:28 ` Bitkeeper jiho
2003-07-20 0:30 ` Bitkeeper Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-20 0:50 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-20 0:22 ` Bitkeeper Jeff Garzik
[not found] ` <3F19DA04.80809@c-zone.net>
[not found] ` <20030719235526.GA31428@work.bitmover.com>
2003-07-20 0:21 ` Bitkeeper jiho
2003-07-19 23:57 ` Bitkeeper Pavel Machek
2003-07-18 21:06 ` Bitkeeper Jörn Engel
2003-07-18 22:00 ` Bitkeeper Svein Ove Aas
2003-07-18 22:25 ` BK is not heaven, sure [Was: Re: Bitkeeper] J.A. Magallon
2003-07-18 23:50 ` Bitkeeper James Simmons
2003-07-19 1:05 ` offtopic crap (was Re: Bitkeeper) David S. Miller
2003-07-19 15:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-20 2:50 ` Bitkeeper Zack Brown
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-19 16:00 Bitkeeper John Bradford
2003-07-19 16:17 ` Bitkeeper Mark Mielke
2003-07-19 10:33 Bitkeeper John Bradford
2003-02-15 8:21 BitKeeper John Bradford
2003-02-15 22:26 ` BitKeeper Pavel Machek
2003-02-16 11:40 ` BitKeeper John Bradford
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